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Meet Akira: a digital resource for Personal Care Assistants working in aged care
$55.00
Free for members
Watch our Good News Stories videos about this resource here and here.
Meet Akira is an interactive story inviting users to learn about spiritual care by engaging in familiar scenarios, by following the daily journey of Akira, a Personal Care Assistant, working with older people. As PCAs share Akira’s story, they will learn that:
- Spiritual care is more than religious care
- Their work already includes acts of spiritual care, that they may not be aware of
- Spiritual care can enrich their own sense of professional value.
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This product is available to Meaningful Ageing Australia members only. Please sign in to purchase. Not a member? Visit our Become a Member page, or contact admin@meaningfulage.org.au.
In accessing Akira’s story through a smart-device or desktop computer, PCAs will see familiar scenarios presented which allow them to learn through the character’s experiences. By understanding their role within the story, they will also gain an understanding of spiritual care which is natural and easy. It will become easy to see that small gestures can have a big impact, and that they can notice the things they do naturally as being important aspects of spiritual care. All they need is internet access.
Meet Akira has been developed using a co-design process with personal carers and older people; as well as with input from our Reference Group:
- Baptistcare WA
- Fresh Hope
- Hall and Prior
- UnitingCare QLD
- Brightwater
- Prof. John Swinton, University of Aberdeen
- Dr. Richard Egan, University of Otago
Meet Akira was launched at our 2020 AGM, and is now available to members at no additional cost. Visit our YouTube channel to watch an Introduction to Meet Akira
Thanks to Prime Super for being a founding sponsor of this innovative work.
